Walking Tours in Toronto with StreetLore

Popular spots covered in Toronto

6 hand-picked stops with researched narration. Every listing below ships with a curated lore beat — the same content the app speaks while you walk past.

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   CN Tower

   landmark

   The CN Tower is a 553.3 m-high (1,815.3 ft) communications and observation tower in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Completed in 1976, it is located in downtown Toronto, built on the former Railway Lands. Its name "CN" refers to Canadian National, the railway company that built the tower.

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   Art Gallery of Ontario

   museum

   The Art Gallery of Ontario is an art museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Located on Dundas Street West in the Grange Park neighbourhood of downtown Toronto, the museum complex takes up 45,000 square metres (480,000 sq ft) of physical space, making it one of the largest art museums in North America and the second-largest art museum in Toronto, after the Royal Ontario Museum. In addition to exhibition spaces, the museum also houses an artist-in-residence office and studio, dining facilities, event spaces, gift shop, library and archives, theatre and lecture hall, research centre, and a workshop.

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   Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport

   landmark

   Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport, also known as Toronto Island Airport, is an international airport located on the Toronto Islands, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The airport primarily serves short-haul flights to destinations across Canada and the United States by Air Canada and Porter Airlines. The airport is one of nine Canadian airports that contain U.S border preclearance facilities.

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   Scotia Plaza

   landmark

   Scotia Plaza is a commercial skyscraper in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Originally built to serve as the global headquarters of Canadian bank Scotiabank, it is in the financial district of the downtown core bordered by Yonge Street on the east, King Street West on the south, Bay Street on the west, and Adelaide Street West on the north. At 275 m (902 ft), Scotia Plaza is Canada's third tallest skyscraper and the 52nd tallest building in North America.

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   Sankofa Square

   square

   Sankofa Square is a public square and outdoor venue at the southeast corner of the intersection of Yonge Street and Dundas Street East within the Garden District in the downtown core of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The square was conceived in 1997 as part of a revitalization of the intersection and the stretch of Yonge Street. Since its completion in 2002, the square has held many public events, performances and art displays, establishing itself as a prominent landmark in Toronto and one of the city's prime tourist attractions.

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   First Canadian Place

   landmark

   First Canadian Place is a commercial skyscraper in the Financial District of Toronto, Ontario, at the northwest corner of King and Bay Streets, and serves as the global operational executive office of the Bank of Montreal. At 298 metres (978 ft) tall, it is the third-tallest building in Canada, the 35th-tallest building in North America, and the 261st-tallest in the world. From its completion in 1975 until 2025, it held the title of being the tallest building in Canada.

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